Helpful links

For a guide to sustainable food and farming links, go to www.foodroutes.org.

Learn more about the statewide initiative to build local food systems at New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group’s Web site at www.nysawg.org.

Get keyed into classes and symposia about local food offered by the Baum Forum at   www.baumforum.org.

For more information on the National Resources Defense Council’s study on California food imports, go to  www.nrdc.org/health/effects/camiles/foodmiles.pdf.

“The State of Agriculture in the Hudson Valley,” by the Glynwood Center, can be found at  http://www.glynwood.org/programs/HVAGreport.pdf.

The National Center for Home Food Preservation explains how to store food at  www.uga.edu/nchfp/index.html.

Tips on purchasing vegetables and an all-around guide to the history, nutritional value, selection, storage and use of vegetables and fruit are offered on Just Food’s Web site at  www.justfood.org.

This is part of the July 17, 2008 online edition of The Riverdale Press.

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